© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/Floppy_Drives Recent content written about Floppy Drives en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_421101211268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nad_masters - While the rest of the world moved on, there is still a need for them. Supporting legacy hardware is one of them. Booting into DOS quickly and easily is another. I personally found a need for one a couple times recently. Once to bring a badly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421101211268 Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:20:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421101211268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409730584196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nad_masters - Floppy disks are pretty much obsolete thanks to CD-Rs and flash drives. It took these devices to finally kill it. The Iomega Zip disks failed to do on its own, and not even with help from their rival, the LS-120. Although popular, they fell out of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409730584196 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:39:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409730584196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_339761991300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author phungus - It may seem hard to believe these days, but there are still computer users out there who need floppy disk drives. At my work, we sometimes run into the need to use a 3.5” floppy, so we got some of these SmartDisk External Floppy Drives. Although... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~339761991300 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:28:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_339761991300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_258379320964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MARIEROY - I recently updated my computer system and feel that I’ve finally entered the 21st Century. There is nothing more frustrating than running an outdated system that is no longer compatible with all the new products coming out onto the market. Also, the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~258379320964 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:10:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_258379320964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_211561451140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author feaxmear - I received 2 FDUSB-TM2 drives from an insurance settlement. Right out of the box I received errors that the floppy was not formatted even though I had done a successful format on another computer. SmartDisk initially gave me the run-around about... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~211561451140 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:01:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_211561451140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_196225175172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author three_ster - Having one of the new iMac's can be really beneficial when it comes to having one compact unit that can get you on to the Internet very quickly. However, there are some gadgets that it just doesn't come with, and one of those is a floppy drive. There... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~196225175172 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:02:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_196225175172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175138967172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author theuerkorn - When updating my desktop computer, I found myself in the odd situation that most readers for digital media (i.e. Compact Flash) are external despite ample space in my case. On the search for an internal solution, I came across an interesting hybrid that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175138967172 Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:06:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175138967172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_145485762180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nad_masters - You really can't say much about a the good old floppy drive... it's slow, but still useful in it's own way. They are great for disposable one-time-use storage (such as give aways), and small files (like a couple of Word documents or Excel files). And... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~145485762180 Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:25:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_145485762180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_136513228420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author vanderjed - SmartDisk claims that its USB drive needs no drivers or any other software-just plug it in and it's ready to go(for Windows XP). Well, after I plugged in the drive I received a message stating that I would need a Windows XP installation CD with service... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~136513228420 Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:20:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_136513228420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_125366800004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author waters_phil - I intended to buy this USB drive so my laptop that didn't have a floppy drive could boot from a floppy. I didn't realize that you cannot boot from USB floppy drives because their drivers don't get loaded until later. The drive was 50 dollars from HP with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~125366800004 Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:33:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_125366800004?linkin_id=8003929